Report: Ethiopian War Got Worse After Biden’s Failed Secret InterventionJohn Hayward 11 Oct 2022
The New York Times (NYT) reported on Saturday the Biden administration secretly sent a team of diplomats to the Tigray region of Ethiopia last month in an unsuccessful attempt to negotiate a halt to a devastating civil war that threatens to destabilize the entire Horn of Africa.
The war only became worse after this attempt at (literally) under-the-radar diplomacy.
According to the NYT, the U.S. military aircraft carrying the diplomats entered Ethiopian airspace while “flying low and taking measures to avoid detection.”
All parties to the brutal civil war, which includes invading forces from neighboring Eritrea as well as several tribal militias, were told the plane carried U.S. envoy to Ethiopia Mike Hammer “as an assurance it would not be shot down.”
Three previous clandestine meetings were arranged by the U.S. government in Djibouti and the Seychelles, beginning in March. None of them have been disclosed to the public until now.
The NYT said its Tigrayan and Western sources came forward because they were frustrated by the poor results of this secretive diplomacy, which they felt was ineffective because it put no public pressure on either the Ethiopian government or Tigrayan insurgents to make a lasting peace deal.
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https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2022/10/11/report-ethiopian-war-got-worse-after-bidens-failed-secret-intervention/
